Take the October 2024 AlaBiz Quiz

Challenge yourself with these Alabama business-related puzzlers from the past.

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Nedra Bloom
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The Huntsville-designed Space Launch System has a lofty eventual destination. What is it?

AlaBiz Quiz - October 2024

1) OCTOBER 2024: Birmingham-based Gaines Family Farmstead has developed a line of products suitable for an animal often found on farms. What kind of animal?(Required)
2) SEPTEMBER 2024 (one month ago): Magneco/Metrel opened in Gadsden in a plant that once housed Gulf States Steel. The Illinois-based Magneco/Metrel makes refractory products for iron, steel, aluminum and glass making. What do you use a refractory product for?(Required)
3) OCTOBER 2023 (one year ago): Business Alabama featured an update on a $1.1 billion project underway in McCalla. The plant, slated to open this year, will be devoted to a food product called Uncrustables. What company?(Required)
4) OCTOBER 2019 (five years ago): Our lead news item was a progress report on a major construction project. It had 2,500 construction workers, 1,600 steel beams, 26,000 tons of steel and ranked – according to Twitter – as the largest industrial project in Alabama and among the top 10 in the country. And it was slated to open in 2021. What plant?(Required)
5) OCTOBER 2014 (10 years ago): We talked with Virginia Barnes, a Huntsville native overseeing the Space Launch System, a massive project for Boeing. What's the target destination for the Space Launch System?(Required)
6) OCTOBER 1999 (25 years ago): Our CEO Q&A for October featured Edward E. Lucente, who was brought in from IBM to try to rescue the finances of a Mobile-born-and-bred printer manufacturer. What company? Hint: One of the founders went on to serve 16 years as mayor of Mobile.(Required)
This quiz appeared in the October 2024 issue of Business Alabama.

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